The Wasp — 1893 — page 483: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily an **advertisement** for *The Christmas Wasp*, a forthcoming colored cartoon publication. The illustration above shows a comedic domestic scene: a small man in formal dress crouches before a woman seated in a chair, appearing to plead or propose to her. The caption reads "NONE BUT THE BRAVE DESERVE THE FAIR" with a subtitle "Another Study in Chappie-ology." The humor appears to target timid or submissive male behavior in courtship—the "brave" man supposedly earns romantic attention. The accompanying text promotes *The Wasp* as a prestigious illustrated publication featuring forty pages of artwork and contributions from notable West Coast writers. It claims to be the only colored cartoon paper outside New York on the Pacific Coast.